This image is quite literally ethnographic in that it is a graphic rendering based on Sherine Hamdy's ethnographic fieldwork on dialysis patients in Egypt. What I find most ethnographically compelling about this image is its ability to capture the complex social, political, and environmental factors that play into an ethnograpic subjects lived experience with kidney failure. Despite this complexity, however, the image provides one with the option to narrow their focus - to quite literally follow the lines of kidney falure through medical tubes. In this way, the image viewer can approach the image from multiple scales by zooming in and out of the narrative it tells.
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